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Townspeople Assembled in front of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Townspeople and a Ford automobile in front of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama. The original caption reads: "This school house at Alpine, Ala., is a...
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African American Farmer on Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting...
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Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house.
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Flooded Road in Rural Alabama

Date: 02 13 1915
Description: Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ...
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Dairy Herd of S.L. Brewster

Date: 02 14 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of the dairy herd of S.L. Brewster, standing in an enclosure outside a barn.
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"Let's Get a Good Cow"

Date: 02 1914
Description: A woman wearing a bonnet and apron kneeling in a field to milk a cow.
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Elbert Blow Farm

Date: 03 17 1915
Description: Elbert Blow farm, with three men and a young child posing. Shows short horn cattle, the barnyard, and home.
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Feeding Yard at Chestnut Hills Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Men and cattle in the feeding yard near a barn on E.A. O'Neil's Chesnut Hills Farm.
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Man with C-254 Cultivator on Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: View across field towards a bare-chested man, possibly Raymond Teal, using a Farmall Super C tractor outfitted with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. ...
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J.A. Coon with Super C and Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View across field towards J.A. Coon with a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor and a C-254 cultivator. There is a pond or lake in the background. The origina...
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Rear View of Cultivator and Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator. The original caption reads: "C-254 two-row cultivator on Super C with...
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Side View of Super C with C-254 Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. There is a pond or lake in the background. The ori...
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Man on Farmall Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man operating a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator. The original caption reads: "C-254 two-row cultivator with No.10 ...
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Poultry House

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of a chicken coop, or poultry house made of wood and wire.
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Automobile Near Water

Date: 1915
Description: Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water.
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Burning Stumps

Date: 03 16 1915
Description: Smoke surrounds several stumps in a field as they are burned to make way for a farm field.
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Terraced Field

Date: 02 1915
Description: Elevated view of a terraced farm field belonging to M.L. Jackson. Multiple tree stumps are scattered throughout the foreground and farm buildings are in th...
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Plowing Around Stumps

Date: 02 24 1915
Description: Left side view of Earle Morris using a walking plow pulled by a mule in a field pitted with tree stumps.
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Boy with Mule and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter rear view from right of a boy with a mule and walking plow near a tree stump in a field.
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Lindsey Reese in Abandoned Field

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Lindsey Reese, dressed in a hat and suit jacket, standing in an abandoned field. Several farm buildings are in the far background.

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